Fan Casting Bishop of Hereford in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

A creature of silk, heavy wine, and insatiable greed who has turned his cathedral into a counting-house. He is the theological mask for the Sheriff’s local extortion, utilizing the threat of excommunication to squeeze every last copper from a starving peasantry. While the Shire bleeds, he funds his decadent excesses and gold-leafed altars with the tithes of the desperate. He acts as the moral shield for the Nottingham court, providing a divine seal for eviction warrants and seizures of land. He is the ultimate target of the insurgency's mockery and restitution—a gluttonous hypocrite who realizes too late that the "Hood" has no reverence for a cross that is used as a weapon of debt.